I love a great old fashioned horror film that leans into creepy and disturbing over gore and jump-scares. Honey Bunch has a simple presence that evokes classic horror tropes; a husband brings his wife to a remote trauma centre after her accident to help her recovery but things are off and she begins to suspect something foul. There is a lot of potential here and Honey Bunch mostly exploits that to great effect, creating an eerie and unsettling rumination on relationships.
Created by a real life couple in writer/director team Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli and starring a real life couple, Grace Glowicki and Ben Petrie, Honey Bunch has a meta feel to its disconcerting comments on marriage and relationships.
The film's biggest strength is its sense of nostalgia for a different era of horror film making which it pay loving homage to while also telling a compelling and rewarding story that manages to stick the landing with an ending that lives up to the promise of its concept. Honey Bunch gives us a complicated perspective on relationships, neither a reinforcement of norms not a condemning critique, but a rather unnerving reflection.
Honey Bunch
Starring: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie, Jason Isaacs, Kate Dickie, India Brown, Patricia Tulasne, Julian Richings
Writers/Directors: Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli
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